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<span class=large>HOSEA</span>
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CHAPTER 6
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Hosea calls Israel to return and serve the Lord—Mercy and knowledge of God are more important then ritualistic sacrifices.
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Come,</span> and let us return unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: for he hath torn, and he will <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/6/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 103: 6 (4-8).">heal</a> us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
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After two days will he <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/6/2a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR restore us to life; i.e. resurrect.">revive</a> us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/6/2b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR presence.">sight</a>.
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Then shall we know, <i>if</i> we follow on to know the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/6/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE spring rain  . . .  winter rain.">latter</a> <i>and</i> former rain unto the earth.
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&#182; O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?  O Judah, what shall I do unto thee?  for your goodness <i>is</i> as a morning cloud, and as the early <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/6/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 14: 5.">dew</a> it goeth away.
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Therefore have I hewed <i>them</i> by the prophets; I have <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/6/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Heb. 4: 12.">slain</a> them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments <i>are as</i> the light <i>that</i> goeth forth.
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For <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/6/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 9: 13.">I</a> desired <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/6/6b" mark="b" type="Q" title="HEB charity, or loving-kindness; Matt. 12: 7.">mercy</a>, and not sacrifice; and the <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/6/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Knowledge.">knowledge</a> of God more than burnt <sup>d</sup><a href="hosea/6/6d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Sacrifice.">offerings</a>.
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But they like <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/6/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR Adam.">men</a> have <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/6/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 8: 1.">transgressed</a> the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
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Gilead <i>is</i> a city of them that work iniquity, <i>and is</i> polluted with blood.
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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, <i>so</i> the company of priests murder in the way <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/6/9a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB to Shechem.">by</a> consent: for they commit lewdness.
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I have seen an <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/6/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 5: 30 (30-31).">horrible</a> thing in the house of Israel: there <i>is</i> the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
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Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
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